Ultrasound Role in Management of Female Infertility

Abstract

First of all; we would like to say that there is nothing worse than a person can not have a child. Experiencing infertility has a very bad physical and psychological effect on the infertile individual, as well as his/her partner. Infertility is a disease characterized by failure to get pregnant after 12 months of regular and unprotected sexual intercourse. It is estimated to affect between 8 and 12% of reproductive-aged couples worldwide (Vander etal., 2018) Infertility investigations should be performed without delay because female fertility decreases with age and investigations should be as non invasive as possible. Many fertility clinics use diagnostic hysteroscopy to assess the uterine cavity and evaluate the tubal ostia. Laparoscopy is also often used to examine internal pelvic organs and to assess tubal patency. However, both hysteroscopy and laparoscopy are invasive and expensive tests which could be replaced by simplified ultrasound-based infertility investigation (Sladkevicius, 2019). They will be discussed in this study.